PERSONALIZED ENGRAVING:
Personalized custom engraving on the lower receiver (other side of mag well where there is open space for custom / personalized logo’s) is available from Addax and will be discounted for participants of this group buy. Custom engraving is going to be done seperately than this group buy. You will need to follow the group buy ordering details in this post. Then in a few weeks you will need to discuss your request and details with the Addax engraving service for pricing.

No, give them a call:
Sure Shot Precision Marketing
818-233-0239
They are open Tues-Fri 11-6 and Saturday 11-4.

Let them know you're part of the Addax/CGF AR lower group buy and you guys will need to work out the specifics of your engraving. You'll work out the engraving price directly with them based on the design you want.

Since the lowers are still at anodizing, you still have time.

Nice guys at Sure Shot. But, as with everyone right now, they are tough to get ahold of since they are swamped. Took me 3 days.

With the lowers at anodizing, is the ETA still sometime in March or is it becoming clearer as to a better target date?

The lowers are at Anodizing, and based on our previous conversation with the Anodizer, the estimated time frame to get the lowers done would be approx. 4-5 weeks, and this was at the beginning of February.

Regarding the Laser Engraver calling members back.

We have spoken to the Laser Engraver on several occasions when members have contacted us saying the Laser Engraver (Sureshot) has not called them, and they assure us that they are making the calls.

We apologize for the delay in any of the calls backs, and any member who opted for custom Laser Engraving will be contacted.

If you have not yet received a phone call regarding your custom laser engraving, please email us directly to sales@addaxtactical.com.

We won't have any uppers ready for several months due to the focus on lowers right now.

Once the dust settles in the coming months, and we can get a clear idea on delivery for certain components and raw materials, we will make a run of uppers, and we still want to engage in an upper receiver group buy to help raise more funds for CGF.

Thanks,
AT

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Originally Posted by Addax

We will keep the Group Buy list handy, and as soon as we are able to get an upper receiver group buy started, we will give priority to the Addax-CGF Group Buy members.

We will offer two options:

1) Just the upper receiver with special CGF logo

2) Complete special upper receiver assembly just for this group buy.

We will be waiting a while before we kick off another group buy, especially when certain parts and materials are backordered anywhere from 6 months-12+ months.

AT

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Originally Posted by kaligaran

Yeah when there is a new group buy, it would be posted here in the Addax forum just like this one with all the details.

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Originally Posted by kaligaran

I can't speak for Addax but I think he hasn't seen this message so I'll reply and they can correct me later if need be.

In past discussions when we've spoken about these group buys. The consensus is that it's definitly more simplistic/streamlined to offer one product instead of variations which complicates the logistics significantly not to mention the part availibility given the current market.

So I expect it will be one option. Hope that helps.

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Originally Posted by Addax

Yes, we will be offering one caliber (5.56) for the complete upper assembly.

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Originally Posted by Addax

We are currently working on several 5.56 complete upper receiver ideas / spec's, and pricing.

Our goal is to be able to produce one special 5.56 Group Buy Upper Receiver Assembly at a reasonable cost, while being able to donate funds to CGF, cover our costs, and make the end users feel that they are getting something really special.

Sounds like this could be this Summer or even Fall before the next group buy assuming the gun parts supply situation starts to return to normal.

I'll be checking this thread at least once a week in the coming months.

While you're waiting, use the power of your mind to practice dry firing your stripped lower receiver. If one can drink tea from an empty cup, one can certainly dry fire a stripped lower receiver.

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Drinking tea from an empty cup -

"Don't think about that home, Anjin-san," Mariko had once said when the dark mists were on him. "Real home is here - the other's ten million times ten million sticks away. Here is reality. You'll send yourself mad if you try to get wa out of such impossibilities. Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup."

She had shown him how. "You think reality into the cup, you think the cha there - the warm, pale-green drink of the gods. If you concentrate hard ... Oh, a Zen teacher could show you, Anjin-san. It is most difficult but so easy. How I wish I was clever enough to show it to you, for then all things in the world can be yours for the asking ... even the most uobtainable gift - perfect tranquility."

Can someone be so kind as to advise an updated ETA? I'm confused about the 4-5 weeks.

The lowers were at Anodizing back on the 14th, and we're looking at 4-5 weeks from then?

Mid March delivery?

The last update from Addax on the 14th said: The lowers are at Anodizing, and based on our previous conversation with the Anodizer, the estimated time frame to get the lowers done would be approx. 4-5 weeks, and this was at the beginning of February.

So once they arrive back from anodizing, they will be engraved with our awesome CFG logo and assembled for shipment. I'm sure Addax will let us know when they get them back what the time frame will be.

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Thanks for all the updates AT. I am very happy to hear the news about the special group buy of uppers in the works.

I have two lowers in the group buy, and definitely want two matching uppers. Whether it is the "standard" or "special" uppers only depends on the feature set.

Thanks for the great work!

John

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And in all fairness, just because JMB did it doesn't mean anything. He'd have won WWII with a soup can, a fork, and a couple rocks. Seriously, even McGuyver and Steven Hawking get together every now and then and are like "How the **** did he do that?..."

Thanks for the updates, ADDAX! Regarding the posts on the matching upper assemblies, I'd be interested in one for sure. Please continue to keep us updated on the uppers. Other than that, thanks for doing this! I'm definitely looking forward to the finished product...

Hi, are the engravers available now? I Have an Ar Pistol, and I'd love to get "pistol" engraved on the mag well of the pistol lower of the pistol I have in hand. Realistically, I'll never get to move out of state and pay the tax so this lower will always be a pistol, and it would make life easier for me if it had Pistol engraved on it.

Thanks for the info!
E

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Originally Posted by Addax

Hello Everyone,

We have received a few emails and PM's just asking when the lowers are going to be ready, so we just wanted to provide a quick update.

As posted before in various posts by us, kaligaran and some members, the lowers are at the Anodizing.

We were told at the beginning of Feb. 4-5 weeks.
The Anodizing shop has received our shipment and put them into the que.

Based on the current estimate, we should be getting the lowers back around the Early March time-frame.

We are just waiting for the Anodizing to get done, so just be patient, and as soon as we receive word that the lowers are on the way back to us, we will post an update.

Please remember that an ETA is an Estimated Time of Arrival, and Estimates can sometimes be revised due to a number of situations, but for now we seem to be on track.

Once we receive the lowers back from Anodizing, we will need to inspect them, and then laser engrave the CGF logo onto each lower, and this is done one at a time.

The plan is to complete the laser engraving in batches of 25 so we do not have to wait for all of them to be done to start DROS's or shipping the lowers to the members FFL dealers.

The lowers will be processed starting with the oldest order first.

We will provide more details once we get the lower receivers back.

Thank you for your patience.

AT

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

Where is this ammo "Black market" he speaks of? Do they have .223 in stock?

Hi, are the engravers available now? I Have an Ar Pistol, and I'd love to get "pistol" engraved on the mag well of the pistol lower of the pistol I have in hand. Realistically, I'll never get to move out of state and pay the tax so this lower will always be a pistol, and it would make life easier for me if it had Pistol engraved on it.

Thanks for the info!
E

You are talking about a lower that you already have I assume (since the group buy lowers can't legally become pistols).
You could contact the engravers directly (I posted their contact info on a previous post) but keep in mind shipping it may be an issue for you if not in their area.

Any engraver in your area should be able to do it for you. You just have to contact them and ask.

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sorry, it's a 100% legal dros'd by the Company who built it as an sse ar pistol with a 5.56 fixed magwell block. Nothing really jumps out as "pistol" on the lower in regards to the current marks. Emailed the engravers... thanks all.

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

Where is this ammo "Black market" he speaks of? Do they have .223 in stock?

There actually is. But I'll let Addax give the details so I don't screw it up.

Any FFL can DROS them as a handgun to a LEO (Roster Exempt, Safety Demo Exempt) so long as they've never been made into a long gun.

Federally they're an "other", not a long gun or a a pistol. Why Addax would be papering them as such is beyond me.

CA DROS effectively requires that they be papered (on the state level) as a long-gun because they aren't on the roster; for a buyer who is roster-exempt and 21+ years old, they can be DROSed as a handgun.

It sounds like Addax isn't willing to do it; but that doesn't stop an intermediate FFL from doing it. Its a shame they're in effect 'tainting' a perfectly good pistol receiver by logging it in their records as a long gun.

Even if our internal manufacturing records note that we made "Model XYZ" serial number range 100-500 as stripped AR15 receivers / frames, in most free states you can take a stripped AR15 lower receiver "virgin" that was never actually manufactured / made into a complete rifle with a buttstock, and legally build an AR Pistol with the stripped "virgin" lower receiver.

It does not even have to say PISTOL on the lower receiver. (Please note: some states like California might have similar restrictions, so some members outside of California will need to check their state laws).

Unfortunately in California this is not the case, since we have to deal with the California Approved Handgun Roster.

LEO's are exempt from the California Handgun Roster restrictions, but many of the Group Buy members are not LEO's, so we do not get this exemption.

The only way non LEO's can own an off roster AR Pistol legally here in CA is to have one manufactured complete as a SSE (single shot exempt) pistol, or an individual can take an 80% lower and make one themselves.

We are not manufacturing complete AR Pistols / SSE pistols for this Group Buy, we are manufacturing stripped AR15 lower receivers for this Group Buy.

Almost the end of March yet? Cant wait for my lower! Have had everything else sitting around for like 4 months waiting to be complete (Except my ammo that was ordered from Cabelas in Oct but it is still back-ordered 'til whenever the heck...)